This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 600 fifth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

podcast. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode, top 14 tips and tools for

creating unique character voices.

Voice in fiction is crucial, but also elusive.

First, writers must consider their own authorial voices, and then the story's specific

narrative voice, and last, but certainly not least, character voices.

In fact, if you're writing fiction, the most important voices on the page

technically aren't yours, but your characters, all of them. And they all need to be authentic,

entertaining, and different from one another. They all need to be authentic, entertaining, and different from one another.

They all need to be unique.

Creating unique character voices is one of the great challenges of writing fiction. We're not simply talking about

writing good dialogue, although that of course plays a major role. We're also not

talking about developing strong and interesting characters,

although that is a critical foundation.

What we're talking about is taking both your characters

and your dialogue that extra mile

to make their voices so distinctive and memorable that

audiences will recognize who is speaking even without dialogue tags or

other references.

Last month, I put out a call asking you all to tell me what topics you'd like me to talk about.

Thank you for all the enthusiastic responses and the inspiration. Today I am doing the first

episode in response to your requests and this one is from Angie L who noted I would love

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